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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
GMail Interrupted
Gmail going down for 2 hours was a news strewn across dailies in India - but the news is illusive to spot on Google News unless you specifically search for the term "GMail"
- http://ibnlive.in.com/news/going-offline-gmail-turns-into-gfail/86177-11.html
- http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Internet-/Gmail-turns-into-Gfail/articleshow/4183985.cms
- http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/3354845.cms
- http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=af1fd991-7462-4e55-9876-9cca59a1d42d
- http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=b5234e72-61b1-4117-b311-736b4b0474f3
ET has a soundbyte from Akhilesh Tuteja, Executive Director, KPMG, IT Advisory
"This may have been due to an attack led by thousands of PCs controlled by a few people who may have directed them to crash the email service's servers or Google might have been alerted of such an attack. This does not put the data to risk, but availability of the data is definitely a problem," KPMG executive director Akhilesh Tuteja told ET. "This means Google now needs to differentiate between machines and human beings," he said.
"This is a sign of Google wanting to differentiate a real user from an attack, so that it can allow only genuine users (or human beings) and curb anymore similar attacks," said Mr Tuteja. These attacks cannot be prevented, but one can continuously monitor their sites to keep in place a back-up.
"This is a sign of Google wanting to differentiate a real user from an attack, so that it can allow only genuine users (or human beings) and curb anymore similar attacks," said Mr Tuteja. These attacks cannot be prevented, but one can continuously monitor their sites to keep in place a back-up.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Dapper goes Commercial
Dapper reinvented itself as an Ad Serving company ... but the good news is that the old Dapper tools for slicing/dicing, web-scrapping pages is still live ... mow moved to a new domain open.dapper.net :-)
It was interesting to see Dapper NOT announcing it changing its corporate focus but simply announcing the old tools to have moved to a new URL - check out excerpt of the mail below:
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Friday, February 20, 2009
About Better Presentation Skills
There are slides that are ugly but work. There are slides that are visually stunning but have zero learning value. In this post I want to:
1. Distinguish between the two aspects of slide design which explain this: graphic design and instructional design. Instructional design helps people learn. It does this by taking into account how people learn from different media. Graphic design is how you place objects on the slide so that you end up with an aesthetically pleasing result.
2. Explore how you can implement effective instructional design in your next SlideShare presentation.
Olivia Mitchell has been a Toastmaster, a management development trainer for a major bank, and a political candidate in New Zealand. Now she teaches others how to become more confident and effective presenters - through face-to-face training courses in New Zealand (Effective Speaking) and her blog Speaking about Presenting.
Bill Gates talks education
In his talk Bill recommends a new book called Work Hard. Be Nice.: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America. He likes the book so much he said he's sending one to every TED member. Later in an on-stage interview with Chris Anderson (that's what the sofa was for), Bill stated again how he thought the need to transform education was really America's greatest challenge. I wish you could see the interview with Chris, it really was the best part of his talk (TED will post the interview separately later). Bill was funny but also very serious about his commitment to spend the rest of life — Bill Gates 2.0 if you will — trying to change the world through his foundation.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
...they have 28 ventures ... and counting ...
They have 28 ventures ... and counting ... some started up some aquired ...but they are doing what conglomerates did .... DIVERSIFY ... in the online space !!
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Some Gyan on "organic" conversion of site's users
Source: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/sxsw_web_app_autopsy.php 
.... it is interesting that Wufoo and Feedburner have a lower conversion rate to the free services than BlinkSale - even though BlinkSale asks more questions during the registration process.
It is also interesting that RegOnline has a much lower percentage conversion rate to free accounts than the other services, but then has a higher percentage of accounts that end up becoming paid members. It was noted that RegOnline has the highest organic result for the search term 'Online Registration' in Google - so this may have something to do with the poor conversion rate to free accounts. As you'll see in the slides (you have downloaded them right?!), RegOnline also has the highest revenue per customer by an order of magnitude.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
19 mistakes online businesses make
One of the best examples of e-commerce in India, irctc.co.in, does not need social networking to get about 200 thousand unique visitors every day. Your bank would have to do some real hard soul searching before having forums as part of their on line transaction portal.
Go read it in full: http://www.dare.co.in/strategy/business-essentials/19-mistakes-online-businesses-make.htm
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Blogger Help Group not maintained
Not answering questions on time was ok - but it seems the Blogger team does not even bother to read through or filter the questions that are posted on the blogger group anymore. And so, the cracker has posted information about Bangalore Sex workers contact details and no one has even bothered to remove this post from the group...
Way to go guys ... just reflects how well users are being supported through your 'beta' service!!